Sorry to ask, but I saw you talking about Warrior Nun & I kinda need a rec: I have a big phobia of demons (tnx actual nuns) that I’m trying to manage by watching fiction about them (the result isn’t always great). I was thinking of saving WN for this weekend cause it looks cool, I’ll be alone & get the big TV for myself. Do you think it is safe to watch? Maybe during the day? As a reference: Supernatural/Wynonna Earp demons I handle just fine; with exocist movies I don’t sleep for three weeks.
Oh, hmm. I think you should be okay, for the most part this is very close to Supernatural/Wynonna Earp/Buffy in tone. We actually don’t see many demons at all, and almost every time that we do, it’s this big cool Minotaur looking being and it’s only for a short while.
BUT, there are these other demons that can effectively possess people and while we see that even less, it might be closer to what you don’t like. Unless I’m missing a part, we only get that in ep 6, from minute 38 to 41. It looks in appearance closer to Supernatural but you know, the possessed scary superstrong thing. It’s over pretty quickly and the whole thing’s in daylight, so I don’t know if it’d be that bad, you can skip through it, it’s not particularly relevant. Oh, there’s another part earlier, in the opening couple minutes of ep 4, but you don’t actually see the demon, it’s just a human behaving badly because of the possession and they run off themselves.
Other than that, I think you should be good! I don’t even know if you need to save it for daytime, it’s not really a horror or scary in general, no jump scares or suspense building unbearably. It’s surprisingly character-based.
The women of the warrior nun ?? I love them so much! Also the whole episode with just Ava and Mary was so so good. My fav episode! Also rooting for Ava x Beatrice. I feel like Beatrice is going to become a fan fav, I know she’s mine already. (the badass moment when they needed to get that shield back from the lab)
I know! At first, I was like, Mary and Beatrice, *immediate hearteyes*. Then Camila, Lilith, Ava, Jillian, Mother Superion. Hell, I love Chanel, granted I still don’t really understand why we had to see that much of JC’s crew, if they weren’t going to play a part in the rest of it. If we had to put up with them as part of Ava’s intro, then I’m not sure why we needed the voiceover. Give us one or the other, somebody to bounce off of or just her internal thoughts, we didn’t need both. But since we did get them, would have been fun to see Chanel and Zori be recruited into the sisterhood, Chanel being super enthusiastic while Zori would have made Ava’s journey look smooth.
The Mary + Ava ep was GREAT! I think it did more for Ava’s growth than any other single ep and tbh, it was a relief to move more heavily into the bigger mythology arc and away from the “I’m going to keep running away despite this incredibly weird supernatural stuff that is still clearly following me around.” And it was good to see Mary’s side of things too, and the beginning of that particular kind of relationship, a lot of tough love from Mary, but love all the same.
I think Beatrice already has, lol, and it helps that we liked her even before she was revealed as the gay one. I have to assume that she didn’t get her own moment to shine in the finale because of the shield job, it was awesome. I’m actually kind of curious why she’s not considered for the halo, she’s a great warrior, possibly their best, a great leader, both compassionate and strategic minded, she even has the family background. I think she might have been too young to be considered for it? She speaks of Shannon being nicer to the new recruits, so I’m assuming it’s Mary and Shannon as one generation, then Lilith, then Bea, then Camila. And of course the halo went off to pick rando Ava, which, that’s the story needed to make the show. In-universe the explanation might be that the halo sensed how conflicted and distracted she was by dealing with her sexuality, and that she just doesn’t seem to want that kind of responsibility or duty, serving more as a really strong second in command. I just really love how complex and well defined and lovable they all are!